Four Favorites #18

A tiny metal statuette bearing an ancient curse arrives at a secret meeting of Allied scientists, and Magno and Davey race to uncover who's behind a series of mysterious deaths—before the Scarlet Serpent of Senegal claims more victims. With a stolen weapon of unimaginable power in play and enemies closing in from all sides, the young heroes must solve the riddle of the mysterious figurine before it's too late.

When a road crew accidentally releases a trapped spirit in Spittin' Devil, reporter Isobel Drake and her companion Lash Lightning are drawn into a mystery of witchcraft and murder. As strange and deadly occurrences plague the local Davis family—descended from a woman once burned as a witch—Lash Lightning and Lightning Girl must uncover whether an old curse has truly come to life, or if something far more sinister is at work.

Captain Courageous races against time when the villainous Captain Nippo escapes from a federal penitentiary aboard a Japanese aircraft, setting his sights on infiltrating General Douglas MacArthur's advance headquarters to steal the invasion plans for Japan. With only fragments of intelligence and the vast Pacific Ocean between them, our hero must track down Nippo and stop him before the spymaster can coerce the general's aide into betraying America's most closely guarded military secrets. It's a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where the fate of the entire campaign hangs in the balance.